Congressman Dennis MooreCongressman Dennis Moore       And not for the U.S. Senate.

Congressman Dennis Moore, about to start his sixth term in the U.S. House, said today he already is planning a re-election campaign to his current office in 2010.

"I do intend to run again," he told Prime Buzz.

His words were aimed at stifling a wagonload of stories and speculation in recent days that the 63-year-old congressman from Lenexa was ready to hang it up.

"I saw two or three different newspapers up here that said somehow...that I wasn’t going to run again," Moore said. "I don’t know where they got that. I hadn’t told anbody I wasn’t going to run again."

He ruled out a bid for the U.S. Senate, which also has been chatted up in the blogosphere as an option. Now that Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has ruled out accepting a seat in President-elect Obama's Cabinet, she will be under enormous pressure to run for Senate, especially now that Moore has ruled it out.